People in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are more optimistic about artificial intelligence than those in Western Europe and North America, according to a report by Anthropic that surveyed around 81,000 people in 159 countries.
The study, published Wednesday, revealed how economic gains from AI usage formed the main aspiration for most respondents, but analysts also warned that not everyone stands to benefit equally.
Anthropic researchers invited users of its Claude large language model to participate in conversations centered around questions about usage habits, hopes and fears over the development of AI.
These conversations, held using Anthropic Interviewer — a variant of Claude trained to conduct interviews — were subsequently also analyzed with Claude. First to filter out “spammy, unserious, or extremely minimal” responses, then for classifying and tagging responses by sentiment.
Respondents reported having both the highest hopes for AI — and seeing its greatest benefits — in their workplaces.
